Re: Number of systems running user Debian? ; gre

[Memnon Anon <gegendosenfleisch@googlemail.com>]

Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> writes:

[...]
> Also popcon needs a working MTA setup to submit the data, which is not 
> really common these days and was known to rely on 'atime'[2], while it 
> is not uncommon to mount file systems with 'noatime'.
[...]
> [2] not sure if this is still the case

,----[ /usr/share/doc/popularity-contest/FAQ
| Q) /usr is mounted with 'noatime'.
| 
| A) popularity-contest relies on atime to know what packages were used during
|    the last month. This means you will only report the list of packages
|    installed without usage information.
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Memnon